Oh How We Laughed

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Album Info

Release Date: 1987

Label: Eyas Media

Complete recording of the third known Death In June gig, at the Kings College in London, May 28th, 1982.

Track 10 is an instrumental studio track. This is not known if it is a Death In June demo, or an early Sixth Comm demo (as "Oh, How We Laughed" was released by Patrick L.).
"Knives" is an early version of "Till The Burning Flesh Is Burned", "Nirvana" is also known as "All Alone In Her Nirvana".

Like for the CD format, this LP album has been reissued numerous times:

(1) First edition was on black vinyl with blue cover, some copies (very few) printed on the label "One" & "Two".
The first pressing was made by MPO, the second pressing by Lyntone Recordings Ltd. (this) with a slightly modified blue cover (on the back artwork, "Distributed by Red Rhino/Cartel" was removed, "EYAS MEDIA" appears only once, and without "Ltd").

(2) Second edition was on blue vinyl (limited to 650 copies) with the same modifed blue cover of the second pressing and a sticker added on it.

(3) Third and fourth editions were on either black or blue vinyl with "pig drummer" cover.

In the runouts, MPO is scratched out, all the markings are etched and the letter "G" is upside down.

Trivia: the first pressing of this first edition was made by MPO, as it was the case with all previous DIJ records before, and distributed by Red Rhino/Cartel. But once it was known (source: "Le Livre Brun", Jean-Louis Vaxelaire, pp. 77-78) that D. Pearce never gave his agreement for this record, both companies seems to have been not very at ease with the situation.
That's surely why the distributor was removed from the back artwork and MPO was scratched from the master used further by Lyntone, on this second pressing and on the following editions, that were all made from now on from the same master by this company.